Presque Isle, ME has a C safety grade (59/100) with a violent crime rate of 220 per 100,000, 38% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Presque Isle is a small municipal reporter (8,642 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with ME and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Presque Isle, ME carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 38% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Presque Isle, ME shows violent crime at 219.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,175.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 38% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Presque Isle reported 19 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 8,642. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Position in the state cohort
At 219.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Presque Isle ranks 6 of 101 — above 95 of the 100 other Maine cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +277.5% against the cohort median of 58.2. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Presque Isle's 219.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Mechanic Falls (222.7), Auburn (215.7), Ellsworth (204.3), Lewiston (244.5). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 179.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 219.9 in 2024 (+22.8%). The highest observed value was 219.9 in 2024 and the lowest 179.0 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 9.2% of the 207 Part I offenses reported in Presque Isle for 2024, against a median of 5.6% across comparable Maine cities — a gap of 3.6 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Property counts dominate Presque Isle's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Based on 19 reported violent incidents in a population of 8,642. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 75.8 Census sq mi, Presque Isle logged 2.5 property and 0.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Presque Isle's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (79% of 207 offenses; mix index 6,387).
Violent offenses are only 9% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Presque Isle offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (75.8 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 188 | 2175.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 164 | 1897.7 |
| Burglary | 13 | 150.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 11 | 127.3 |
| Arson | 1 | 11.6 |
| Violent Crime | 19 | 219.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 12 | 138.9 |
| Rape | 6 | 69.4 |
| Robbery | 1 | 11.6 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 8,937 | 179 | 2361 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 8,882 | 191.4 | 1610 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 8,746 | 182.9 | 2435.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 8,629 | 208.6 | 3001.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 8,642 | 219.9 | 2175.4 |
Presque Isle Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Presque Isle's 207 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Maine cities closest to Presque Isle in population. Their populations run from 8,364 to 8,871, against 8,642 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Presque Isle sits at 219.9/100K violent (grade C); the Maine cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Presque Isle reported 19 violent crimes and 188 property crimes, for a total of 207 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Presque Isle's violent crime rate increased by 5.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 27.5%.
The most common crime type in Presque Isle is larceny-theft, accounting for 79.2% of all reported crimes (164 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Presque Isle is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Presque Isle's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Presque Isle, ME rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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